family, your service and we are all here to demand more accountability from ice and with that i yield back. >> thank you so much madame chair and thank you to our democratic leadership hakeem jeffries and others if convening this very important hearing as ranking member of the immigration subcommittee, this has been a central focus of my work, the lawlessness of ice and cbp and dhs and we have on immigration subcommittee and in conjunction with house democrats on judiciary and across the caucus we've held a series of six hearings including one in minneapolis where chief

and that is something we will be doing going forward. lc 40. and on behalf of everybody at space x we are proud to support human spaceflight missions and the amazing science and research that happens on the international space station. on behalf of everyone at space x a big thank you to our partners for their trust in us and thank you for flying space x. back to you, stephanie. stephanie:we open the floor to questions. we have so many people here in the room and i want to remind people who are dialing in that you can dial*1 to get into the queue. times 2 to get out of the queue. we have a microphone in the room so we want to go right over here. >> thanks for doing this. were there any lessons learned from crew 11 the have informed future prelaunch readiness procedures? crew 12 got to launch a little bit early.

is there anything in the future the next crew will be ready to take over in a different or quicker way? >> the vehicle, we were processing dragon a little ahead of schedule the whole time so we looked at the readiness of dragon and were able to accelerate, we could have moved the launch up a little more with dragon and falcon 9. at the end when you look at the totality of the mission, getting the hardware and software ready and the crew so in this case crew training drove the date we selected so we are looking at those things, crew 13, have dragon ready a little early again. we have that with our manifest. >> i would add we've got seven people total on board space

station the way we are flying today, we have a cosmonaut with us, andrey fedyaev launched with us today and crew member on the sawyers. more --soyuz. we have folks can help us with an extra set of hands. the way i look at it is not ideal to bring the crew home early, there was no immediate crisis or emergency. we are fortunate we have flexibility in training and operations to make some adjustments but i don't see us doing anything different in the future to have a vehicle on standby. we are pretty adaptable and will work towards whatever the situation demands. >> we head over here. >> thank you for the press

conference. if i may, as the new administrator, what are the plans for the future and if i may also, how important is it to incorporate ai into long-distance missions? thank you. >> i guess to start on the ai point it is incredibly important right now. recently we did a demonstration with our perseverance rover on mars where it was undertaking ai operations like autonomous driving which is essential for both robotic and crew missions, natural transmission delays, historic mission control contract, but our centers on this robotic mission will gather so much data you want to be able to analyze and

interpret and make decisions versus waiting for it to come back and determine what data you want to send back. i think you will continue to see that. one of the missions, the robotic mission to venus we are looking at now may be designed from the get go to have ai incorporated into its mission software. i think as far as the relationship with roscoe most -- roscoe's most --roscosmos we could bring our astronauts home early knowing with partners in russia, continuous operations in a space mission in a relatively safe way so the design of the international space station, through its international partners, a chance to showcase itself over the last month or so. >> over to will right here.

>> will robinson smith was spaceflight now, thank you for taking the time, to the administrator, during your remarks, you mentioned early today, i guess yesterday, there were a series of wet dress rehearsals for the sls rocket, i wonder if you could go into more detail on this particular stage of the testing and if that was able to inform a date for the full next wet dress rehearsal, thanks. >> we will provide additional details on that tomorrow, the teams want to have a chance to get together and review the data before taking a position on whether we are going to advance to a full wet dress 2 or undertake additional many tests. this should make a lot of sense on artemis one, we are combating hydrogen leaks multiple times on that, we

encountered that again on the artemis 2 wet dresser herschel, we already communicated we replaced some seals and now we want to do as many tests as we can before stepping into a full wet dress operation to gain confidence, we will provide more details tomorrow is on the early views, we did not see some of the leaks for the portion of the test we were running that had a comparable period during the full artemis 2 wet dress so it's an early allocation technician dedication, we will share more details tomorrow but the idea is we will continue to do everything available to gain confidence going into the full wet dress. >> right appear. >> sawyer rosenstein with an ff. couple timing questions regarding ld 40 how long do you expect the booster to be up there before it is lowered and can you launch from 40 if the booster is vertical. on the iss side how long do you

expect to be able to get to full speed after talking to where you were at the crew 11 pace prior to the return? >> thank you for the question, this does a for the opportunity for some pretty cool pictures i would say if that's what you are thinking. obviously we want to make sure is in every one of our operations be only step into that in one place, then include all the safety procedures after a booster lands, making sure it is able to be approached by personnel and perform subsequent operations to bring in horizontal into the hangar. should we need to perform a launch while the vehicle is vertical on the landing field we are able to do so but nominally the timelines don't look to be required. >> 5 to 7 days is generally the time period? they will start doing some work as they are doing handovers for

the first three days hand over after that they will be packing space x 33 and getting it ready to come home. give them about a week and they will be up to speed and working at full pace. right appear. >> national space society and administrator isaac man and any other panels, it's an exciting week with the vulcan launch, space x falcon 9 and crew dragon and artemis 2 on the launchpad and it didn't align, there could have been a chance you had two crew launches in a matter of days. hopefully that will happen soon, just wanted to see what kind of preparations in terms of mission management infrastructure, human resources in order to make that happen in the future. >> this was one of the first things i was briefed on after being sworn into this role,

what we do in circumstances where we launch two human missions from kennedy space center in short proximity. everything from two different pseudo-rooms which we have available to us here, we are giving consideration to, how we would stage our recovery forces for all the various scenarios and i was thinking what a great problem to have. obviously we went through the motions and this is why we kept crew 12 in a position where day could launch as early as february 11th, took today's window and we were not going to target a specific date until the wet dress and that conflict was alleviated but it is one i hope we have with great frequency going forward. >> with spectrum.

>> thank you for taking our questions. administrator isaac when, you've been on your own crew missions in the past but how did it feel to see the first crew mission as nasa's new administrator today? german:a good question. it is obviously wonderful to be back here at kennedy space center and see everything in action from a slightly different perspective for sure. felt like i might have had the second-best seat i could have today, going into the operations but it was wonderful to see everything in motion, felt very privileged to be alongside an extraordinary team preparing for an excellent mission like crew 12, great to watch it. >> right appear.

>> this is for the administrator if i may. if i may just press a little further on your cooperations with russians, what specifically do you have in mind and hold talks with your counterpart anytime soon and perhaps travel to baikonur? jared:i believe everything you asked is in some degree of work, certainly planning to attend the next crew sawyers lau but we are making preparations for discussion with my counterpart at the earliest opportunity. the space station is going to still be up there for a long time. there's a lot we need to accomplish together in the years ahead. opportunity for good conversation. >> we head over here to the

back. yes, yes. >> thank you so much. emily worden, thank you for taking my question. do you already know who is going to perform the epa on board? thank you. >> we are still working on the crew tasking for that particular eva with all 3 plans we did and we will get that out. >> she's definitely ready for that data set. it will be part of the planning. >> over to you, marcia. >> marcia dennis, associated press, for administered isaac one. how late into february can you keep dealing with potential fuel leaks and other tests on the pad before you really need

to start trying to launch in march? i've heard the third or the advertised 6, what is the earliest in march you can actually launch artemis to? >> i would say first we have a lot of time ahead of us. if you think about the last wet dress, the proximity to the opening of the launch window in february, rather condensed compared to the timing we have available now. we can do a lot of confidence tests and i expect we probably will. we could undertake more than one were wet dress if necessary, we are going to make absolute most use of the time we have leading up to the start of the window. we are considering if there are earlier opportunities. from my perspective, let's get through a good wet dress, could potentially be the third.

>> thanks. irene parts with aviation week, there was a report recently that omb had directed some finance funding to either suspend or halt, can you explain what that is and if that is actually missions or some logistics? >> i'm aware of what you are referring to. that was really incorrect reporting. very routine correspondence between the cfo office and various mission directorate and centers as we were gathering information as part of the apportionment process. i would definitely come anyone who has questions relating to science missions take a look at the nasa official quote that was provided the reporter although i don't think they included the entirety of it. makes very clear there are no missions that are being canceled or terminated.

this was entirely an information gathering exercise that has been completely routine. any of those quotes that go out. i have an opportunity to review in advance and stand behind. >> one question in the back over here. >> can creamer, space up close, thanks for doing this, it was a spectacular launch, congratulations to everybody. i am a scientist and you just talked about science. i want to ask you about mars, you mentioned perseverance, collecting samples to bring back. the best chance to find life beyond earth. the budget was cut this year. i would like to know what is your position on mars sample return? are you going to fortify it? is it going to be a priority i hope? >> to clarify, the cancellation of the mars sample return as it was constructed predated this year's budget cycle, the way

that was constructed was not economical, nor would it have been achievable. all that aside my interest in getting those samples back, you bet. i've said it many times, an opportunity for what could be the most consequential discovery in human history and i do believe congress made available additional funds in the latest appropriations for us to begin evaluating various possibilities in how we could retrieve those samples so it is certainly very early but we've been given the opportunity to rethink our approach and hopefully we will be able to do it in a very affordable, there's such a thing as an expedited way to go to mars and back. >> we have a question online james healy from west hartford community interactive. we go to you, james. >> james:my question is for

administrator eisenman. given the launch of this new mission in your robust public relations efforts will be see the return of the past outreach methods like the station, this week at nasa, nasa tv or any of the archived social media apps? jared:we are certainly committed to be as transparent as we can keeping the public informed of all the exciting undertakings we have at nasa right now. i can't comment on any specific avenues you mentioned and very unlikely we are bringing back archived social media accounts, it's relatively unpopular opinion, we should be consolidating further and get more quality out than general quantity. one of the best ways to get the public involved in our mission but all that said i can assure you as somebody who is an

outside observer for a long time i am certainly committed to increasing the rate of information sharing with the interested community. >> one last question, we will go over here. >> aaron gilchrist with nbc news. my question is in the same vein as the one you just got. i'm curious about your message to folks who are not astro files, people who got up this morning and saw their first launch ever, woke their kids up to see their first launch ever on all platforms where it was available, what do you say to people to help them understand why these launches, these missions are important, why they are of value to folks who maybe aren't astro files? >> it is just i have a bias here, hard to imagine there were that many people who haven't looked up at the sky at night and wondered what out there. we here at nasa are leading the

greatest adventure in human history and what we may find the what we could learn which could have meaningful benefit back here on earth as has proven throughout the history of the space program, new technology, economic potential, new sources of energy and power and just satisfying the curiosity that we all might have, i think as a society we can invest a lot in trying to address the challenges of the day, the imperfections in life, you can always put a small percentage as we do in trying to make progress for the future and to inspire kids to grow up and dream bigger, what we do here. >> with that if there are no more questions we will wrap up this press conference. on the screen you will find a link taking you to crew 12 coverage and you can find our highlights from today's launch, thanks for joining.

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